Thursday, 26 March 2026

We are asked, ‘What is the matter?’ (Some sixty-something years later can the UK’s 2026 National Year of Reading propose answers?)

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He waited while she closed the front door, then followed her into the sitting-room, the entrance to which was immediately on the right. The ...
Tuesday, 9 December 2025

Floreat amor ♡ Take heart

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 Hold my hand as if you love me, stupid. So where is that pride you have too much of ? No stars lose their shine despite what you did and fl...
Saturday, 15 November 2025

Skin Job. A Self-Narrative Assignment.

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Just last week I was astonished to learn a fiction of mine from my ‘Fugitive Pieces’ file had surfaced at my publishers ( Salt ). Its title?...
Wednesday, 5 November 2025

FOUND! Wisdom Spun in Gossamer: Spiderivable Radials

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My young nephew, Ernst Bienek , is torn between his passion for arachnids and his fanatical devotio...
Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Found! Poésie trouvée (Part 6).

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I have touched upon, in earlier posts, the peculiar jolt one is dealt when a specimen of poésie trouvée is stumbled upon.          So it wa...
Monday, 1 September 2025

A Reissue from the Harcourt Archives! Adhoc-ism: The Art of the Impromptu.

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R eissued by Éditions Studio Harcourt in a facsimile of the now unprocurable first edition, Verity Askew ’s popular standard work (1948) – ...
Tuesday, 26 August 2025

‘Hostage in Peking’ Sonnet circa 1968 ‘A Vacuum of Hell’

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In July 1967, journalist Anthony Grey was imprisoned by the Chinese People’s government for 27 months of solitary confinement endured in the...